The Claudyssey: Homer's Odyssey, translated line-by-line by Claude Fable 5
The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5
A complete line-for-line English translation of Homer's Odyssey, with all 12,107 lines keyed to the Greek original. The project, edited and produced by Chris Duffy, includes 1,260 scholarly notes, a full index of names and places, and a complete audiobook narrated in a single voice. The Greek text is A. T. Murray's Loeb edition (1919), and the English is original. The source code and all editions are available on GitHub.
Tell me the man, Muse — the man of many turnings
- whythismatters
How does it compare to previous (human) translations, what is the regurgitation level? In any case, lots of em dashes, so mission accomplished to bring it up to contemporary standards.
- spinchange
12,107 line-for-line translation of the A.T. Murray Greek text (Loeb, 1919) by Claude Fable. Includes line notes and an index. HTML, epub, pdf, and YouTube Audio (by gpt4o-TTS). A dual-agent review pass was done on the entire work with a third "adjudication" agent reconciling their findings. Reviewer agnets were gpt-5.6-sol high reasoning.
- UtopiaPunk
This page provides a great overview of several popular translations of The Odyssey. It lists line-by-line translations as well free translations:
- kjellsbells
This is a useful marker of progress in translation, not a replacement for literary translators.
Six years ago I fed Dante's Inferno to AWS translation. It was...not good[1]. Maybe its time to try again and see how things have changed.
[1] https://github.com/ffx271/dante-inferno/blob/master/english/...
- nater5000
Read this as "Claudussy" at first.